The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)

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The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)

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The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) PDF Author: Marguerite Queen Navarre, Consort
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The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)

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Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.), by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

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The Tales of the Heptameron

The Tales of the Heptameron PDF Author: Queen of Navarre Margaret
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Excerpt: ...deplores with infinite compassion in some part of his works the disaster and calamity of his century, in which not only was the memory of an infinity of illustrious persons cut off from among mankind, but, what is more, their writings, by which the rich conceptions of their souls and the divine ornaments of their minds were to have been consecrated to posterity, did not survive them. And certainly with most manifest reason did this good and holy man address such a complaint to the whole Christian Republic, touched as he was with just grief for an infinity of thousands of books, of which some have been lost and buried in eternal forgetfulness by the negligence of men, others dispersed and destroyed by the cruel incursions of war, others rotted and spoiled as much by the rigour of time as by carelessness to collect and preserve them; whereof the ancient Histories and Annals furnish a sufficient example in the memorable library of that great King of Egypt, Ptolemy Phila-delphus, which had been formed with the sweat and blood of so many notable philosophers, and maintained, ordered, and preserved by the liberality of that great monarch. And yet in less than a day, by the monstrous and abominable cruelty of the soldiers of Caesar, when the latter followed Pompey to Alexandria, it was burned and reduced to ashes. Zonarius, the ecclesiastical historian, writes that the same happened at Constantinople in the time of Zeno, when a superb and magnificent palace, adorned with all sorts of manuscript books, was burnt, to the eternal regret and insupportable detriment of all those who made a profession of letters. And without amusing ourselves too curiously in recounting the destruction among the ancients, we have in our time experienced a similar los

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V. )

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V. ) PDF Author: King of Navarre consort of Henry Ii Queen Marguerite
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Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April 1492 - 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alençon and Berry. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Marguerite wrote many poems and plays. Her most notable works are a classic collection of short stories, the Heptameron, and a remarkably intense religious poem, Miroir de l'âme pécheresse (Mirror of the Sinful Soul).

The Tales of the Heptameron, Volume Iv

The Tales of the Heptameron, Volume Iv PDF Author: Queen of Navarre Margaret
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The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5).

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The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.)

The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) PDF Author: Marguerite Queen Navarre
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The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.)

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.) PDF Author: Marguerite Queen Navarre
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